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The War on Inflation & its Costs

The Lowe Down

And saying we won at “very little cost” may not be entirely ingenuous because the CPI level is still up from 260 in February 2020 to 307 as of September 2023. It’s plausible that based on this narrow definition of inflation, we can say that the worst is probably behind us.

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Building CX on the Front Lines

GovLoop

Training Ensure that employees at all levels have a common baseline definition of CX, and then break out what that means for their job. Consider this: Within two years of making CX a top priority, the Veterans Affairs Department in 2020 saw veteran trust in VA health care hit more than 90% for the first time. Specifically, VA used 5.7

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Building CX on the Front Lines

GovLoop

Training Ensure that employees at all levels have a common baseline definition of CX, and then break out what that means for their job. Consider this: Within two years of making CX a top priority, the Veterans Affairs Department in 2020 saw veteran trust in VA health care hit more than 90% for the first time. Specifically, VA used 5.7

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: What’s featured here is not definitive, and perhaps not even fully representative of what it looks like to have an artistic space of one’s own in the city. In Brooklyn and parts of Queens, rent is at least 10 to 15 percent higher than it was in March 2020.) Suitable spaces are passed down, sublet, shared in secret.

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Meeting at the intersection of race and ethnicity in federal data analysis

Partnership for Public Service

residents believe the 2020 census questions about race and ethnicity represent their identity “very well.”  According to the Pew Research Center , only about half of U.S. However, this is likely to change due to recent Office of Management and Budget efforts to formally review and update demographic data standards by the summer of 2024.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

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Defining Community Engagement, Public Participation, Civic Engagement and More

Social Pinpoint

In 2023, people expect to have their say. If you’re based in Canada, or Australia, or even the United Kingdom, you may have a preferred term that could be interchanged with some of these definitions. In recent years, the term community consultation has definitely taken a backseat to community engagement.